She nicknamed her prosthetic leg "Cuthbert." This eventual CIA spy was 27 when she lost her lower left leg in a hunting accident, according to the agency's biography of her. (Image credit: CIA, Public Domain)Ī World War II-era female spy with a wooden leg? It seems too fantastic to be true, but Virginia Hall's tale is the stuff of high drama.
Virginia HallĬIA agent Virginia Hall of Special Operations Branch receiving the Distinguished Service Cross from General Donovan, in September 1945. Documents released in 2015 reveal that Greenglass did not initially implicate Ethel in grand jury testimony, according to CBS years later, Greenglass would tell the New York Times he lied about Ethel Rosenberg's involvement to distract suspicion from his wife. The primary witness in the case against the couple was Ethel's brother David Greenglass, who was convicted of stealing nuclear weapons intelligence from Los Alamos, New Mexico, according to the New York Times. The couple were members of the American Communist Party until 1943, an affiliation that would not serve them well in the charged Cold War climate of their trial. She worked as a secretary until marrying her husband Julius and having the couples' sons. Ethel Rosenberg was born Ethel Greenglass in 1915 in New York City, according to her biography on Atomic Archive. As recently as December 2016, the two sons of the Rosenbergs were petitioning President Obama to exonerate their late mother, CBS reported. Rosenberg was convicted of treason along with her husband Julius in 1951, accused of sharing secrets about the U.S. (Image credit: Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division)Įthel Rosenberg is one of the most famous names associated with clandestine activities, but it's not clear she was even guilty of espionage. Court House after being found guilty by jury. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, separated by heavy wire screen as they leave U.S. The agents denied the charges and Russia refused extradition a 2016 inquiry by the British government found that Litvinenko's poisoning was "probably" approved by Putin, according to the BBC. Litvinenko died three weeks later of radiation poisoning, as reported by the BBC.Ī British investigation accused two former Russian agents, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun, of carrying out the poisoning. He had been poisoned, doctors found, by radioactive polonium-210, which had been put in his tea that day at London's Millennium Hotel. Litvinenko spent his time in exile speaking out against Putin. Berezovsky was a businessman who had been critical of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
(Image credit: Natasja Weitsz/Getty)Ī former agent in the Federal Security Service (FSB), Russia's spy agency, Alexander Litvinenko fled to the United Kingdom in 2000, after being arrested twice in Russia because he and his colleagues accused higher-ups in the FSB of ordering the murder of Boris Berezovsky. Alexander LitvinenkoĪlexander Litvinenko is pictured at the Intensive Care Unit of University College Hospital on Novemin London, England. Libby was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison, a sentence later commuted by president George W. In the process of that investigation, administration advisor and lawyer Lewis "Scooter" Libby was indicted for perjury, making false statements and obstruction of justice. No one was charged with leaking Plame's identity, though a Department of Justice investigation probed whether the Bush administration had outed Plame as revenge for her husband's opposition to the Iraq war. Armitage said he had inadvertently revealed Plame's status to Novak. That all ended when the late reporter Robert Novak revealed her to be a CIA spy subsequently, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Her job was to gather intelligence and recruit spies to ensure that bad actors didn’t acquire nuclear weapons, she said. Plame was deep undercover working in counter-proliferation, she told "60 Minutes" in 2007. Valerie Plame was a covert operator for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - though until she was outed in the pages of the Washington Post in 2003, she seemed to be just another D.C.-area professional. Former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Main Washington, DC.
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